I was asked in January to do one of the presentations to the ExcentureUK (Andersen Consulting/Accenture) Alumni group in December this year, so I had a long time to think about it! The initial idea was to talk about my ‘Top 10 Tech Tips’, which would be a summary of content I researched for Bizzhacks. […]…

I’ll be speaking at the Excenture gathering on 6th December 2012. The full agenda is below. If you’re a former Accenture or Andersen Consulting employee, you’re welcome to join us – but you MUST register! To sign-up to the ExcentureUK group, click here. Location : Accenture Offices, 30 Fenchurch St, London, EC3M 3BD Time : […]…

This page has turned out to be the most popular on the site. Which is a shame, because it’s WayOffScript for Bizzhacks, not the sort of stuff the site is for. But I’ll leave it up as a public service: I’ve just completed an upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 8 on my Oracle VirtualBox […]…

Enough! I’m already tired from the corporate bickering. I’m also exhausted from the changes. Last week I downgraded my iPhone to iOS6 – yes, that’s right DOWNGRADED! Apple has yanked the application that I use the most (Google Maps) from the software stack, and replaced it with something patently worse – ‘Maps’. I’m sure there […]…

What was Google Wave At the outset, a wave worked much like email. You started a wave by including other parties – other wave users – into it, and writing a message. Unlike email, a wave is stored on a centralized server, rather than distributed between servers (and clients). This architecture allowed the other parties to respond […]…

One area that attracts my attention is project planning. There is the de facto standard tool, MS Project, which I’ve been using for some 20 years, and which I think is an abomination. The list of problems with MS Project is endless, and best left for another article, except to say that LiquidPlanner addresses some […]…

The research activity is important – as is the categorisation and organisation of it’s findings. It’s an interative process: You start with a question, and the results inform the re-framing of the question. The higher the cost of doing the research, the lower the inclination to return to it, the fewer iterations, the lower the quality of […]…